As you might know by now, Heartbleed is a security flaw that enables unauthorized users to access your encrypted information. When you visit a website through a “secure connection,” in theory the information is encrypted and can’t be accessed.

According to CNN:

“Cybercriminals could exploit the bug to access visitors’ personal data as well as a site’s cryptographic keys, which can be used to impersonate that site and collect even more information.”

Just do a Google search for “Heartbleed” to see what you need to do. But in short, you need to:

Ensure that the websites you use have fixed the Heartbleed security flaw

If they’ve done this, you need to then change your password.

There seem to be so many security holes, flaws and ways for unauthorized users to access your network.

Here’s What You Should Do To Be As Secure As Possible

Be vigilant and aware when major secure flaws are announced by the general media.

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I guess I have to be a little bit concerned as I keep a lot of my files on Dropbox. How about websites that has security measures? Should we worry that much if we don’t have that big of an audience as with those big brands?

I usually don’t comment, but I think this is a very important issue. First, the whole thing just scares me: I have recently moved my business (I analyse metrics for small companies) to the cloud from the accounting to the storage. However my cloud, tresorit was not affected (they have end to end encryption and many other things. I am really happy with them and changing dropbox seems to pay off..). However I also use Evernote to track my schedule and many other services which were actually affected – so changed my passwords as soon as they corrected the issue. What I want to say here is that changing passwords is not an optional and good to have action, but a must.

It is quite worrying, but the way I see it is I’m not going to lean into that worry. That’s what whoever (or people) did this wants. I’ll take the necessary measures (which I’ve done most of) and move on.

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